Ajay is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, educator and innovator with 13+ years of experience with building startups with successful exits like Modiv Media and launching products with world class brands like Nokia, Lehman Brothers in areas of e-commerce, digital payments and mobile marketing. He has built and led products teams, has strong. cross-functional and international product development experience in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Solid track record of launching new products in new/emerging markets, product innovation (issued patents), strategy and revenue growth. He was also a lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Haas school of business at U.C.Berkeley. Ajay frequently mentors startup founders and sits on the advisory board of startups. Ajay speaks German, French, and Hindi.. Ajay is currently the co-founder and CEO of Vyrill.com, a U.C.Berkeley founded and funded startup, that helps digital marketers make sense of their video content on social media/web and leverage video intelligence for product marketing. Vyrill uses natural language processing, computer vision and machine learning technologies to tag, analyze and provide insights on product videos. The product is an artificial intelligence powered video analytics, video licensing and content marketing platform for user generated video content. Valuable insights can be gained from using Vyrill dashboard and underlying platform to help better understand the video content being published by not only brands, but also their customers, fans, critics, experts, influencers, etc. Vyrill helps convert video insights into product marketing actions with its content marketing tools.. Ajay led product management teams at Nokia, where he developed and launched a scalable global card and operator billing solution with 124 mobile operators in 43 countries for Nokia mobile app store, increasing registered users to 70 million with 6 million downloads per day and bringing in $20 million of additional new revenue.. Previously, Ajay co-founded, led as CTO and directed “Modiv Media”, an award winning venture capital funded company providing time-tested and customer-embraced mobile shopper marketing mobile app for in-store shopping, integrating personalized promotions, mobile self-scan, and instant checkout on shoppers smartphones. Modiv Media was acquired by Catalina Marketing, a global leader in in-store retail Point of Sale marketing solutions. Ajay pioneered adoption of mobile devices for personalized loyalty, rewards, offers and payments management. He is a recipient of many issued patents in the mobile commerce space.. Ajay is alum of University of Mumbai, East Tennessee State University and Babson College with degrees in Computer Science and a MBA.
